Thiruvananthapuram: The Facebook row has turned into a full-fledged war between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress.
After privilege notices from both the sides, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Thursday sought the removal of Shashi Tharoor as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology.
Dubey who is a member of the committee in a letter to the speaker Om Birla requested “to invoke Rule 283 with provisions in rules of procedures for removing Shashi Tharoor as chairman of the IT panel”.
Dubey alleged that Tharoor had showed “disdain” in summoning Facebook and sending a notice on breach of privilege against him, and alleged that, “he (Tharoor) is not a new architect in creating unnecessary controversies to grind his political ambitions and at the same time targeting my party, even by misusing the parliamentary institutions”.
Nishikant Dubey wrote, “Mr Tharoor’s tenure has been controversial” and said, “Speaking in Spenserian English with a foreign accent does not give freedom to an individual to disregard our parliamentary institutions”.
Earlier on Wednesday both Shashi Tharoor and Nishikant Dubey moved privilege notices against each other on the Facebook row.
